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4.1 Play and Exploration

Learning through experience

  • Children have to experience play physically and emotionally.
  • Children may play alone or with others.
  • In their play children use the experiences they have and extend them to build up ideas, concepts and skills.
  • While playing children can express fears and re-live anxious experiences. They can try things out, solve problems and be creative and can take risks and use trial and error to find things out.

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